Re: Re: LHD front seat fixings
Here are pictures:
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^The driver’s outboard seat tab. I don’t know how it originally looked but the one I have is rivetted to an angle bracket and attached with two bolts. It just needed a bit of filing to fit in its new LHD position, here. I had freshly painted it but I didn’t wait long enough before installing it and got my grubby fingers all over the tacky paint 😡
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^The modification to the RHD brackets for LHD: stacking the seats. It works OK, just displacing the inboard driver’s seat rail about 5/16″ forward (this tab should butt against the vertical lip of the seat box).
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^I put these extra holes in the angle bracket, thinking I wouldn’t be able to reverse the seatbox bolts in the seatbox lip to make clearance because of my carpet trim on the back side of the seatbox, and that the bolts would have to go through the angle bracket. It was unnecessary as I was able to turn the bolts around and cut off the excess length under the carpet trim such that the nuts fit under the carpet trim, and the bolt heads fit behind this angle bracket, as they’re supposed to in a Dormobile. Now I’ve got these ugly holes 😕
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All the holes for the original Station Wagon seats will be temporarily filled with silicone, bolts, and/or rivets until I can find some nice rubber stoppers (bungs, I think you say in U.K.?). The seat bolts will also all be siliconed to reduce the chance of water getting between the aluminum and the steel and accelerating the galvanic corrosion. All that is left of the floor beneath the rear seats of the original Dormobile tub is a spider web of aluminum!
-Jeremy
